Ahmadou Kourouma's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#20426
It happens to a man to be wrong in life on a plate of food which is reserved, but never on the words intended for him.

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#20427
Sometimes we find a big deer in the trap set for the agouti.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20428
If the Partridge flew, her child not stay down.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20429
Policy managed by the duplicity.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20430
A country master technology overcomes that the underdeveloped people who lack cunning and courage.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20431
In the fight between the flights of flies and the herd of elephants, these aren't fat people that still prevail.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20432
Some are not more likely to the great mystique that hyenas are to the large ablution.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20433
The authentic Chief vehicle through the orders he gives, the vital SAP which gives life to his country.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20434
A insufficient Grove can leave a sufficient Liana to concentrate.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20435
Marriage is sacred. Which performs all the obligations that marriage imposes and hope, never waits in vain.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20436
The duty of the mother does not stop with childbirth, breastfeeding or to marriage; No, the mother of the real obligation continues as long as she is alive.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20437
There are two kinds of blindness on this Earth: the blind of the view and the blind for life.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20438
If the Hyena is permanently on the alert, it is because she knows she has very few sincere friends on this earth.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20439
The proverb is the horse of the word; When the word is lost, it's because the proverb found.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20440
Who is committed to weave a fabric to cover the buttocks of the elephant is obliged to succeed an exceptional work.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Monnè, outrages et défis)

#20441
The successor of a dictator must be like him and be publicly known as inferior to him in virtue and worse in the vice.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages)

#20442
We can survive the bullet that gets you into feet, never that hits you in the heart.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20443
The renowned thief pays the hen it has not chapardée.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20444
We don't shoot Guinea fowl in his net.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20445
A rich people does to the poor country whose residents cannot donate their person.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20446
These are not by his speeches and his posturing, but by silence and seriousness that the wise man stands in an Assembly.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20447
We do not learn the water or swimming to the young caiman.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20448
A man is also a stray in perpetual quest of his food.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20449
You're betrayed by his close friends.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20450
Even rich, the dog does not cease to eat his feces.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20451
The bird that never left his tree trunk, cannot know that elsewhere there is millet.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20452
They will never take you as a great healer of leprosy if your mother is covered with pustules.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20453
What the child gets physically, he owes it to his father; his mother, to what he gained morally.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20454
Despise his opponent even small and frail is always a strategic combat.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20455
He must get up early when we have to, in his day, walk a long track.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20456
Before you create a fall, the river calms down and creates a small lake.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20457
Sometimes death is falsely accused when she over old men who were already finished, already dead before the advent of death by age.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20458
There are no bird that sings an entire day without stopping.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20459
Prevent the betrayal, ferret out the false friend, the parent jealous, the traitor until he inoculates his venom is such a complex operation to clean the anus of a Hyena.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20460
Truth and falsehood are never far from each other and rarely the truth triumph.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20461
A large country can that subjugate the small people who can't come together to do with all its resources, in the face of aggression.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20462
The Chief consults with advisers he has appointed and is not required to follow their advice.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20463
For all the animists, giving his blood to another is giving one of their souls, make it a double, another yourself.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20464
In a reach, it can be only a male hippopotamus.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20465
All realize what Allah is not always just and perfect: sometimes, it gratifies a big head without giving you the means to acquire a long turban.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20466
When you see the mice have fun on the cat's skin, we measure the challenge that death can inflict upon us.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages)

#20467
We don't have to look in the mouth than I been asked to shell the peanuts to the community: have to trust to the Chief.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages)

#20468
To keep them away, get lost in the Bush, the lioness, all-day, fun with the Cubs.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages)

#20469
Transgression behaves like a small Ember thrown into the savanna to the bulk of the season dry: we see where the flame takes, but no one knows where it will stop.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20470
The Hunter on the prowl, sometimes stops to move.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20471
The elephant is not broken in a day.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20472
It is always at night, and on the sly, that we leave the country in which it was greeted in wealthy, when poverty and indebtedness assail you.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20473
A man is fully realized as soon as he breaks free of the distinction between truth and falsehood.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20474
When told that the Hyena anus smells bad, they told everything. Add nothing.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20475
When we won't be affected by the tails of monkeys, we move away from their bands.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20476
The Hunter on the prowl, from time to time, interrupts continue to chew his tobacco.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20477
We don't have in his house with the leashed guard dogs in his yard.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20478
Every man is a concealer. The good feelings are only schemes: the cockroach devours us blowing on our wound.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20479
Even in the harmattan, the Sun from time to time, stop asking the clouds veil him.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20480
There are great people by the number of their inhabitants as the Chinese, big peoples by technical means of their army as the Americans, the great peoples by their culture and their history as the French.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20481
Alms is performed with the heart while offer is carried by duty to get rid of a catchy beggar.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20482
There are two kinds of fates in life: those who open the tracks in the large Bush of life and those who follow these trails open.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20483
It is often by putting too many condiments that eventually spoil the best sauces.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20484
Politics is like hunting, we entered politics as one enters the association of hunters. The large Bush which operates the Hunter is vast, inhuman and merciless as space, the political world.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages)

#20485
Despite the extended stay of a bird perched on a baobab, he does not forget that the nest where it smoldered is in the shrubs.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20486
When the drum hits, it is not proclaimed best dancer, we prove it.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20487
We're always more sincere when it takes to witness several instead of one God.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20488
There is no long day ending with a night.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20489
If you like your couscous, eat it while it's hot.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20490
The truth is very often only a second way to repeat a lie.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20491
The main institution, in any Government with a single party, is the prison.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20492
When at the time of the separation between two individuals, no one feels regret, the separation came too late.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20493
This isn't an insult or an affront that prevents the Sun to bed.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20494
Love is serve an other than yourself and make a master.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20495
Life is always painful for people who love those who exclude them and despise those who accept them.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20496
Power is a woman who is not shared.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20497
When a rebel condemned to death, it's a whole clan to know to disappear to have peace in the country.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20498
There is only the desert which heals despair: we can weep there without fear of overflowing river.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20499
Fate is never surprising members of the race of the born property. On their way, is not on the pebbles of the luck they come up, but those of the advantageous chance.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20500
People have not the time to turn, to weigh, to compare, the acts of a President.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20501
Allah is not obliged to be fair in all his things down here.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Allah n’est pas obligé)

#20502
Always thank the Shea tree under which we picked good fruit during the right season.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20503
There is no justice on this earth for the poor.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20504
A pet out of the buttocks is never catches up.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20505
You don't argue with a visionary.

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#20506
Never water the old path of its course.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20507
The call of the blood is definitely irresistible, and we never do a Hyena a sheep.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20508
There is no Crest without wind.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20509
You should never pay the meat juice in the throat of a Hyena and ask to spit it out.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20510
When you don't know where we are going, we know from whence we came.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20511
What believer judge the will of the gods before running their words?

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20512
There is no market that one day does not end.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20513
The death of a single fighter is not enough to stop the fight.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20514
Poverty in freedom is preferable to submission in opulence.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20515
Trying to swing too far the Toad, eventually throw it in the happiness of a pond.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20516
When you see someone and he flees, it means is someone who wants to hurt. We have to catch him.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Allah n’est pas obligé)

#20517
It is only God who kills the bad guys, idiots, fishermen and the damned.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20518
Humanitarian intervention, it is the right it gives to States to send soldiers in another State to go out and kill innocent poor people at home, in their own country, in their own village, in their own box, on their own mat.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Allah n’est pas obligé)

#20519
Allah does what he wants; It is not required to access all the prayers of the poor humans. The manes do what they want; they do not have access to all the chiaderies of the Priors.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Allah n’est pas obligé)

#20520
Everywhere in the world a woman shall not leave the bed of her husband even if the husband abused, strikes and threatening the woman. She is always wrong. This is what we call the women rights.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Allah n’est pas obligé)

#20521
It is always something like snake, tree, livestock or man or woman before getting into his mother's womb. It's called life before life.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20522
It's like that in tribal wars: people give up the villages where men live to take refuge in the forest where wild animals live. Wild beasts, it lives better than men.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20523
Animals treat better than men wounded.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20524
The dairy baby sleeps in peace because he knows that there will be milk no matter what happens.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20525
Allah in his immense goodness leave never empty a mouth he created.

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#20526
Perhaps the art of the novel is based on emotion.

Ahmadou Kourouma
(Lire - Septembre 2000)

#20527
The knee never wear the hat when the head is on the neck.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20528
Allah creates each of us with his chance, his eyes, his size and his sentences.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20529
Eventually, in any event, what is secret is known by everyone.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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#20530
Barnyard thieves know and say it: when you succeed a wondrous shot with a second, you can enjoy fully the result of rapine that after defeating this second.

Ahmadou Kourouma
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